In the chron they said it was an interesting bit of 'reverse engineering'. Now, this is EVE and whenever something is left unsaid, it's not. Silence means "Think of the worst possible thing that could be applied to this situation. That's it." in CCPanese. But last I checked, 'reverse engineering' isn't "Break it down, turn it into an individual product, and then get another thing to break down and turn into an individual product of the same type." It's "Find out how it works, then use the concepts we discover from that to make more like it." Since in the EVE universe we have gas-based cellular scans for the love of God, I'm pretty sure they can take a map of his neural pathways without killing him.